(Natural News)
In a move that is sure to get liberal snowflakes rushing to their safe spaces faster than ever, Princeton University is now encouraging students
to report “problematic experiences based on [their] identity.” This
means that if students find themselves in a situation that makes them
feel offended or uncomfortable in anyway, they can – and should,
according to Princeton – go tell somebody about it, even if it is
something that normally wouldn’t result in disci

It’s said that about 80 percent of New Year’s resolutions are abandoned by the second week of February.1
This means if you made one for 2018, there’s a good chance it may
already have failed. There’s also a sizable number of people who set no
goals at all, New Year’s resolutions or otherwise, in part because they
may not realize the importance of goal setting and in part because they
may not know how to do it.2
There are other reasons why you may avoid goal setting as well,

(Natural News)
Beginning shortly after President Donald J. Trump defeated Hillary
Clinton in the 2016 election, Americans were treated to a steady diet of
stories from the American Pravda media claiming that he “colluded” with
the Russian government to “steal the election.”
For months information meant to substantiate the claim, made in the
absence of any real evidence, was “leaked” to various news outlets known
to be friendly to Clinton, Democrats, and every known enemy

Companionship found to promote longevity: Being single increases risk of disease

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A recently published report has found
that happily married couples have a 60 percent less risk of being
diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and other age-related mental
degradation issues, due to them having healthier lifestyles.

“We
know depression and heart disease are risk factors for dementia. And
loneliness had similar strength of association as the heart disease risk
factors. We are social creatures and reduction of stress through social
support may be more important than previously thought,” Professor Eef
Hogervorst of Loughborough University in England says.

Married people, on the other hand, are
more likely to live longer and happier lives because their partners
have concern over their well-being and health, and encourage healthy
activities.

“It might be because married men have
healthier lifestyles – better diets, less alcohol, less smoking, and
earlier health services visits,” Hogervorst adds. “It could be that married couples will try to cope with dementia symptoms before health services are involved.”

The study, which observed the lives of 6,677 individuals between the ages of 52 and 90 for six years, was published in the Journals of Gerontology. It showed that 220 of the participants went on to develop dementia.

This new study supports previous
research which has found various connections between loneliness and
dementia. A study that was published in November 2016 stated that people
who had high levels of a specific kind of protein in their brain that
supposedly caused Alzheimer’s disease were almost 80 times more prone to
feel isolated.

A study that was done in early
September of 2017 showed that we could tell if an elderly person is
exhibiting signs of early dementia if he or she is making minimal errors
while carrying out everyday tasks.

Depression and how it contributes to an unhealthy life

A new research has found that
depression may not be a single disorder or symptom but a whole group of
separate syndromes. Researchers from New Zealand have identified 12
sub-types of depression that can ultimately help the 14.3 percent of New
Zealand adults who were diagnosed with depression according to British
charity Mental Health Foundation.

According to the researchers, the 12 sub-types based on evolutionary psychiatry are:

Infection, in which the loss of the ability to fight disease-causing bacteria and parasites may result in sleep disturbances, anhedonia or the inability to feel pleasure, impaired concentration, and lack of appetite;

Events such
as exclusion from a social group, bullying at school, professional
hiearchy, or unemployment may trigger a depressive episode;

Postnatal period, which results in depression in 10 to 15 percent of women;

The changing of the season: seasonal affective disorder affects people every year;

Long-term
stress which is known to make the immune system work overtime, causing
an increase in pro-inflammatory cytokine levels that can vastly affect
mood;

Starvation, which is known to darken the mood and lead to apathy and social withdrawal.

Markus J. Rantala, adjunct professor
from the University of Turku in Finland, says the identification of the
12 sub-types would make it easier to treat depression. “This is because
the focus will be on treating the underlying reasons of depression
instead of merely focusing on the symptoms, which is how traditional psychiatry treats depression,” he says.

“We
argue that the occurrence of symptoms, or patterns of symptoms, depends
on the sub-type of the depressive episode. The particular manifestation
of depressive symptoms may have more to do with what triggered the
depression than the personality of the patient,” Rantala adds.

The researchers believe that their
system looks at the bigger picture of the patients’ long-term mental and
physical well-being rather than merely addressing short-term symptoms
of the disorder.